Economy Without State: Accumulation & Survival in SomaliaJames Currey, 2003 - 224 pages |
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... town . They maintained camels in their herd , because they are more reliable milk producers than cattle in a dry environment . For example , from 1987 to 1988 very few cattle herders in the Kismayo area sold milk , while 46 percent of ...
... town . They maintained camels in their herd , because they are more reliable milk producers than cattle in a dry environment . For example , from 1987 to 1988 very few cattle herders in the Kismayo area sold milk , while 46 percent of ...
Page 94
... town of widespread opportunity , where fortunes can be made as well as lost . In contrast , the town is considered a ' punishment ' for most Kenyan civil servants . A government employee who is posted there from outside of the district ...
... town of widespread opportunity , where fortunes can be made as well as lost . In contrast , the town is considered a ' punishment ' for most Kenyan civil servants . A government employee who is posted there from outside of the district ...
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... town and its suburbs is about 43,000 ( 1996 ) ( Kenya 1996 : 18 ) . This means that the per capita value of cattle trade in the Garissa area was about $ 275 in 1997 , which is sizable for a country with a per capita gross national ...
... town and its suburbs is about 43,000 ( 1996 ) ( Kenya 1996 : 18 ) . This means that the per capita value of cattle trade in the Garissa area was about $ 275 in 1997 , which is sizable for a country with a per capita gross national ...
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Absame activities Afmadow Ahmed animals annual Aulihan author's field notes Baidoa Barre Besteman border region brokers camel cattle cattle trade Chapter conflict costs cross-border trade Development Dinsoor drought dry season earlier Ethiopia export trade faction Food Security FSAU Garissa District global government's collapse grazing groups Harti herders herds Horn of Africa important Jamaame Jubba River Jubba Valley Kenya Kenyan markets Kismayo town livestock livestock exports livestock trade Lower Jubba Region major Marehan Menkhaus merchants middlemen militia milk mobility Mogadishu Mohamed Zubeyr Mombasa moved Nairobi nomadic Ogadeen overseas export pastoral pastoralists percent political population Puntland purchase recent refugee remittances rural Samatar Saudi sector segmentary Siad Barre social Somali borderlands Somali economy Somali herders Somali shilling Somaliland SoSh southern Somalia stateless trader interview trans-border transport UNDP UNOSOM urban warlords water points